In this article, I compare the attitude of two local Catholic Churches: Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic towards issues of anti-Semitism. These two Churches represented Ukrainians (Greek Catholic) and Poles (Roman Catholic) in the province, where around 13 percent of locals were Jews. My case study is the anti-Semitic activity of the Roman Catholic priest Stanislaw Stojalowsky, who was very...

Although the Tiszaeszlár blood libel case (1882–83) ended with the acquittal of the defendants, the strong cultural and political impact of the affair on Hungarian society can be ascertained to this day. In this paper I will argue that the current, politically eminent status of Tiszaeszlár for contemporary Hungarian right wing extremists can only be fully understood following a thorough...

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This blog accompanies the international Symposium “Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism in International Perspective”. This Symposium will take place from 21st to 23rd October 2015 in Paris and will be organized by the Max Weber Foundation and its institutes (German Historical Institutes London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Warsaw, Washington, the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris, the Orient Institute Istanbul) as well as the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin.